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Unionized employees of the Pickaway County sheriff’s office will receive small raises in the
resolution of a contract dispute.

Deputy sheriffs and dispatchers represented by the Fraternal Order of Police, and corrections
and communications employees represented by Teamsters Local 285 each will receive 0.5 percent
raises for this year and 2014.

The size of the raise was set by a state conciliator for the FOP after the unions and county
officials could not agree to fact-finders’ reports. The Teamsters then accepted the same offer.

The county had offered no raises; the FOP wanted 3 percent a year, and the Teamsters wanted 4
percent. The raises will cost the county about $50,000 a year.

Both sides will discuss wages again in 2015, the final year of a three-year contract.

No other county employees are scheduled to receive raises this year amid a no-growth budget.
However, Brad Lutz, county administrator, said both union and nonunion employees could receive a
lump-sum bonus later this year, depending on the health of county finances and local-government
funding from the state.

The county has not handed out raises since 2009 but spent $280,000 last year to give all
employees a lump sum equal to 3 percent of their pay.

A starting deputy makes about $37,275 a year, with top pay after seven years set at $57,100. The
average corrections officer makes about $34,750. The pay rates trail those in other Ohio counties,
the unions said.